USSA participants

Lecturer, Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources
Agricultural and Resource Economics
India, Bangladesh and Nepal: how development interventions influence households, particularly poor households under market imperfections; traditional market mechanisms;alternative incentive schemes


Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources
Hydrology and Catchment Management
AISRF project until 2012 with the Indian Agricultural Research Institute in Delhi, in particular the Water Technology Centre. This project concentrates on the hydrological impacts of rain water harvesting at the catchment level.


Professor, Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources
Plant Breeding Institute - Cobbitty
projects in India , primarily concentrating on molecular wheat breeding for rust, water-use-efficiency and heat with a smaller effort in legumes


Professor, Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources
Chair of the regional expert group (South Asia) (overseen by DVC Int'l)


Lecturer, Faculty of Arts
Anthropology
marginalised and impoverished intra-state migrant women of Varanasi; Hindu diasporic urban communities in India; violence, cosmology, gender, space and cultural understandings of illness; gender, embodiment and space as intrinsic dimensions of social relations in India.


Senior Lecturer , Faculty of Arts
Art History & Film Studies
Sri Lankan and Indian cinema


Honorary Professor , Faculty of Arts
History
South Asian history (primarily social change), Hinduism and Christianity, especially in South India


Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Arts
Indian Subcontinental Studies
Pali, Sanskrit, and Buddhist and Asian studies; Buddhist manuscripts from Afghanistan and Pakistan; Gandhari language and the Early Buddhist Manuscripts Project; composition and transmission of early Buddhist literature, in the ways in which texts have been used by Buddhist communities, and in the languages of early Buddhist texts.


PhD Graduate, Faculty of Arts
Indian Subcontinental Studies
Hinduism and Sanskrit literary study; Sanskrit under the British and modernity


Lecturer, Faculty of Arts
Indian Subcontinental Studies
Buddhism and Indian Philosophy; Sanskrit and Tibetan language study; the individual and the natural in South Asian and Tibetan traditions and modernities; comparative philosophy and history of ideas in India and Tibet; India and Tibet in the history of ideas in the West


Honorary, Faculty of Arts
Indian Subcontinental Studies
Disiciplinary background is in Sanskrit language and Studies in Religion. His research interests are primarily in Buddhist and comparative philosophy; methodology in cross-cultural studies and the place of India and Buddhism in the history of ideas.


Tutor, Faculty of Arts
Indian Subcontinental Studies
Hinduism and Sanskrit literature; Sanskrit and Hindi language


Lecturer, Faculty of Arts
Linguistics
English language acquisition, English language teaching and teacher education, World Englishes, pragmatics, and issues surrounding minority languages in South Asia


Lecturer, Faculty of Arts
Political Economy, School of Social and Political Sciences
Informal economy: employment; Industrial relations; Work and care in the changing Indian economy.


Studies in Religion/ Asian Studies
Consciousness Studies, Buddhism, especially Buddhist Contemplative Practices and Healing


Research Fellow, Faculty of Arts
Archaeology
Medieval urbanism in Sri Lanka (collaboration with partners in the USA and Durham University in the UK)


Masters (International Security) Candidate, Faculty of Arts
Centre for International Security Studies
Ideological choices of ethno-nationalist movements in Pakistan, specifically comparing the origins of the secular ideology of Baloch nationalists, to the Islamist ideology of Pashtun nationalists


Head of Department, Faculty of Dentistry
Oral Surgery
Clinical research program in Nepal

Danielle Penn
International Development Manager (Scholarships and Grants), Faculty of DVC (Int'l)


Lecturer, Faculty of Economics and Business
Centre for International Security Studies
India-Australia relations and diplomacy


Professor, Faculty of Economics and Business
Discipline of Business Law
Legal Systems in India: Interactions between tradition and modernity; commercial and consumer law


Lecturer, Faculty of Economics and Business
Discipline of International Business
Indian firms


PhD student, Faculty of Economics and Business
Domestic violence in a business community in Calcutta


Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Education and Social Work
History, Eduction
History of Education and History Curriculum; colonial female and village education; colonial education in North India; Education in Panjab under the Raj


PhD Graduate, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technologies
Currently with RTA
Committee member of the NSW Chapter of Institution of Engineers Sri Lanka


RHD Student, Faculty of Health Sciences
Behavioural and Social Sciences in Health
Women's reproductive health in Pakistan; Psychological Trauma, Population displacement, Natural disasters. Study the Effects of October 2005 Earthquake in Pakistan.


Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Health Sciences
Discipline of Behavioural and Social Sciences in Health
Health sociology; women's Health (breast cancer, reproductive health), Culture, Health and Illness; Health and Globalisation (HIV/AIDS, global burden of disease); ageing and health; health and illness in developing countries/ South Asian societies.

Stephanie Short
Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences
Teaching and Curriculum
Health workforce governance: good professionals, safer patients, improved access


Professor, Faculty of Law
Centre for Health Governance


PhD candidate, Faculty of Pharmacy
Pharmacy
Information needs and wants of elderly patients on warfarin therapy: The role and utility of web-based resources.


Associate Professor, Faculty of Science
Geosciences (Human Geography)
Agriculture and food industry; plantation (tea and coffee) sector; rural development; food security


Associate Professor, Faculty of Science
Institute for Innovation and Science andMathematics Education/ Physics

Anushka Patel
Associate Professor, Faculty of Sydney Medical School, Cardiology (RPA)
Director, Cardiovascular Division, The George Institute for International Health
clinical, population health and health services research with a range of partners in India; research presence in India based in Hyderabad


Lecturer, Faculty of Veterinary Science
Veterinary Biostatistics and Epidemiology
Livestock epidemiology in the Panjab